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Once it gets daylight i houl with a call 2 to 3 times.
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"Truthfully, I didn't know what a g houl was," says Mr. Summer, who appeared in three scenes with a raccoon-like face and a bullet wound to his chest.
Elderly Zombies Win the Undying Loyalty of Their Fans Clare Ansberry 2010
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Once it gets daylight i houl with a call 2 to 3 times.
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May 14, 2010 at 4:35 am dis houl LOL nedez tu goe tu teh nawtee bayn!
Yur flashlite in heer nawt wurkin. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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And for the backsliders, the "weak brethren, the outcasts -- aw! let's feel for the lek, and 'keep a houl' o 'their ban.'"
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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"Begorra, it's a risky game, puttin 'sail on her, sorr," said Tim meeting Mr Mackay half-way on the main-deck; "but we moight thry lettin 'out a schrap more av the fores'le, if the houl lot don't fetch away."
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874
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The thruth of the houl matter is jist simple enough; for the very first day that I com'd from Connaught, and showd my swate little silf in the strait to the widdy, who was looking through the windy, it was a gone case althegither wid the heart o 'the purty Misthress Tracle.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1840
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And is it really more than the three fut and a bit that there is, inny how, of the little ould furrener Frinchman that lives jist over the way, and that's a oggling and a goggling the houl day, (and bad luck to him,) at the purty widdy Misthress Tracle that's my own nixt door neighbor, (God bliss her) and most particuller frind and acquaintance?
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1840
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And shud ye be wanting to diskiver who is the pink of purliteness quite, and the laider of the hot tun in the houl city o'London — why it's jist meself.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1840
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Frinchman, "and sure Mrs. Tracle," says he, that he did, "isn't this gintleman here jist his reverence Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, and isn't he althegither and entirely the most particular frind and acquaintance that I have in the houl world?"
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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